Wishful thinking "Indictments can backfire."

USATODAY.com - Republicans defend DeLay as critics pounce: "History shows that political indictments can backfire. In 1993, Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, the same Texas prosecutor who filed this week's charge against DeLay, charged the state's newly elected senator, Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, with misuse of office (she had been state treasurer). Earle later had to drop the charges. Hutchison has since been re-elected twice. Her office said she would have no comment on Earle.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, a Democrat from Florida who was elected to Congress after being impeached as a federal judge, said he isn't ruling out a comeback for DeLay. 'All politicians have Freddy Krueger-like qualities,' said Hastings, referring to the horror flick villain who keeps reappearing despite seemingly being killed off. 'We can rise again.'"

Greenspeak

This comment at then end of a CNN article is not reassuring.

Asset prices fall after big risk-taking - Greenspan - Sep. 27, 2005: "In a separate speech to mortgage bankers Monday, Greenspan added that although mortgage debt is rising, most Americans have built up enough equity in their homes that they could weather a price drop without serious harm."

For Bush, a Deepening Divide

We think
1) the President and his administration has performed incompetently.
2) There are factual, unbias means to measure FEMAs and DHS performance.

WaPo see it differently. It's all a matter of partisianship.
The disaster in NO the and poor performance of FEMA and DHS and their unqualified directors is yet another example of our "growing willingness to interpret events through a partisan prism."

See what's worng us? We're trying to score points rather than hold the Presidents hand.

For Bush, a Deepening Divide: "To his critics, Bush is now reaping what he has sown. Their case against him goes as follows: Facing a divided nation, the president has eschewed unity in both his governing strategy and his political blueprint. These opponents argue that he has favored confrontation over conciliation with the Democrats while favoring a set of policies aimed at deepening support among his conservative base at the expense of ideas that might produce bipartisan consensus and broader approval among the voters. His allies and advisers, while acknowledging that polarization has worsened during the past five years, say the opposition party bears the brunt of responsibility. Democrats, by this reckoning, have rebuffed Bush's efforts at bipartisanship, put up a wall to ideas that once enjoyed some support on their side, and, even in the current crisis along the Gulf Coast, are seeking to score political points rather than joining hands with the president to speed the recovery and relief to the victims.

Wherever reality lies between these mutual recriminations, the path from post-9/11 unity to the rancor and finger-pointing in the aftermath of Katrina's fury charts a clear deterioration in political consensus in the United States and a growing willingness to interpret events through a partisan prism. "

Fuck you Dan Balz and Fuck you WaPo.